Assad replaces fugitive PM, hits rebels in key area

Syrian troops on Wednesday pushed even farther into the key city of Aleppo where rebels are running short on much-needed supplies. NBC's Richard Engel reports.

By NBC News wire services

ALEPPO, Syria -- President Bashar Assad named a new prime minister Thursday to replace Syria's most senior government defector as his forces appeared to deal setbacks to the rebels in a?strategic district of Aleppo.

Assad appointed Health Minister?Wael Nader al-Halqi, a Sunni Muslim member of the ruling Baath Party from the southern province of Daraa, to head the government after Riyad Hijab fled Monday after spending only two months in the job. Daraa is where the 17-month-old uprising against the Assad family's rule began.


Hijab's dramatic escape across the border to Jordan dealt another blow to Assad's authority, already shaken by the assassination last month of four of his top security officials and rebel gains in Damascus, Aleppo and swathes of rural Syria.

But Assad, shrugging off such setbacks, seems locked in a desperate contest with his mostly Sunni opponents seeking to end half a century of Baathist rule and topple a system now dominated by members of the president's minority Alawite sect.

'Situation is desperate' at makeshift hospitals on Syrian-Turkish border

Assad has focused his fierce army counter-offensive on Syria's two main cities, reasserting control over much of Damascus before taking the fight to the northern commercial hub of Aleppo.

Key Aleppo district pounded
But blistering attacks on rebel positions from the ground and the air only appear to be slowly chipping away at the opposition's grip on its strongholds.

Rebels fighting in the Aleppo district of Salaheddine, a southern gateway to the city, said they had been forced to fall back from some frontline positions on Thursday by withering bombardment, which had reduced buildings to rubble.

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"There have been some withdrawals of Free Syrian Army fighters from Salaheddine," rebel commander Abu Ali told Reuters, adding that rebels were regrouping for a counter-attack.

Another combatant said at least 30 people had been killed in Salaheddine, where fighting has ebbed and flowed for two days.

The state news agency also claimed that government forces had regained the area, but the situation on the ground remained fluid.

Everyday more wounded Syrian rebels are brought in to Turkey and treated in border hospitals run by Syrian doctors and volunteers.? Medical supplies are in short supply and the hospitals underequipped.??NBC's Ayman Mohyeldin reports.?

"It's difficult to know exactly what's going on because of the scale of the bombing, but the rebels are still fighting," Aleppo-based activist Mohammad Saeed told The Associated Press by Skype.

Fierce fighting rages in northern Syrian city of Aleppo

Syrian fighter jets launched airstrikes Wednesday on Tel Rifat, some 25 miles north of Aleppo,?hitting a home and a high school and killing six people from one family, residents said.

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After months of protests and violent crackdowns, a look back at the violence that has overtaken the country.

Aleppo, the country's commercial hub, holds great symbolic and strategic importance. Some 25 miles from the Turkish border, it has been a pillar of regime support during the uprising. An opposition victory there would allow easier access for weapons and fighters from Turkey, where many rebels are based.

Satellite images show Syria's bombardment of Aleppo, Amnesty says

Already stretched by rebel activity in many parts of the country, the military, despite its advantage in tanks, warplanes and helicopters, has had to cede ground elsewhere as it struggles for control of Aleppo.

Iran hosts conference of 'friends'
Meanwhile, state television in Iran, Syria's closest ally in the Middle East, said Tehran was hosting a conference of "friends" of Syria in the hope of finding a peaceful solution to the crisis.

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People resisting the army of President Bashar Assad in northern Syria cope with loss and prepare for fighting.

Hossein Amir Abdollahian, deputy foreign minister in charge of Arabic and African countries, said representatives from 15 countries will attend, including ones from Russia and China, as well as Pakistan, Iraq, Algeria and Venezuela. Russia's foreign ministry said Moscow will attend the talks hosted by Iran, represented by its ambassador in the capital Tehran.

The meeting was called at short notice.

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Russia in the past has urged the West to allow Tehran to take part in international discussions on how to settle the Syrian crisis, arguing that the Islamic republic could play an important role. Moscow has been the main protector and ally of Assad's regime, shielding it from the U.N. sanctions over its brutal crackdown on an uprising that has evolved into a full-blown civil war.

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

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Stocks waver, with hard-to-read signs on economy

FILE -- A July 26, 2012 file photo shows trader Sean Spain working on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. A stock market rally lost steam Wednesday Aug. 8, 2012 after mixed earnings from U.S. companies added to fears about Europe's economic slowdown. (AP Photo/Richard Drew/file)

FILE -- A July 26, 2012 file photo shows trader Sean Spain working on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. A stock market rally lost steam Wednesday Aug. 8, 2012 after mixed earnings from U.S. companies added to fears about Europe's economic slowdown. (AP Photo/Richard Drew/file)

(AP) ? The stock market has the summer doldrums.

U.S. stocks dawdled between small gains and losses Thursday as investors were unable to decide what to focus on: incremental encouraging news about the U.S. economy, or incremental worrisome news about China and elsewhere.

At midday, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 30 points. It has barely budged for most of the week, rising each day but only by the tiniest fractions of a percent. Part of the reason is the dearth of major developments in the European debt crisis or decisive news on the U.S. economy. And part of the reason for the relative quiet is that traders like to clear out for vacation in August.

"I think there are more active managers in the Hamptons than there are in Manhattan," said Hugh Johnson, chairman and chief investment officer of Hugh Johnson Advisors in Albany, N.Y.

The Dow was trading at 13,146, down about 0.2 percent from the day before. The other major stock indexes were equally stagnant. The Standard & Poor's 500 was down one point at 1,401. The Nasdaq edged up a point to 3,012.

The market, trendless and mercurial, had to digest conflicting news about the economy.

In the U.S., the government reported that the trade deficit fell to the lowest level in 18 months. The trade deficit is the gap between how much the U.S. imports and the amount that it exports. A lower deficit is generally considered good for the economy. In June, the U.S. paid less for the oil it brought in and enjoyed higher sales overseas of its autos, pharmaceuticals and industrial machinery.

But a troubling trend was buried in the report: Exports to China dropped more than 4 percent. That's a concern because China, the world's second-largest economy, has been a major driver of the global economy throughout the recession and its aftermath, even as other countries stumbled. U.S. exports weren't the only sign that China can't grease the world economy's skids forever. Separately, China reported that growth slowed in auto sales and factory output.

China's government has shown that it's worried about the situation. It has cut interest rates twice since the start of June to try to spur lending and borrowing, and it is pumping money into the economy through more spending on public works.

Another emerging market, India, also reported lower industrial output.

The U.S. also reported weekly jobless claims, but the results weren't much to hang onto. The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell slightly last week. However the average for the past four weeks, generally a more reliable indicator, rose slightly.

The second-quarter corporate earnings season, when U.S. companies report how much money they lost or made, is winding down. Tim Hortons, the Canadian coffee-and-doughnut chain, fell despite reporting higher revenue and net income. In the morning, it was down $1.39 to $51.19.

Advance Auto Parts fell after reporting lower revenue and net income, losing 3 percent, or $2.05, to $68.52. Hillshire Brands, maker of Ball Park Hot Dogs and Sara Lee frozen pies, popped 6 percent, gaining $1.60 to $26.76. The company said it is preparing to introduce new ads and new products that will support profits.

Online brokerage E-Trade jumped 6 percent, rising 52 cents to $8.54, after the company unexpectedly fired its CEO. The reasons for the dismissal weren't immediately clear.

Ominous signs out of Europe continued to hang over the market: The chairman of Cyprus's Laiki Bank, which the government has propped up, stepped down after the country's central bank governor asked him to.

Germany's Commerzbank predicted lower profits for the rest of the year, saying its customers are too nervous to invest or take out loans. And Greece reported that unemployment soared to 23 percent in May from 17 percent in the same month a year ago. Among people under 25 years old, 55 percent are out of work.

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Russia: Underground sect charged with abuse

A member of an underground sect in Russia's Volga River province of Tatarstan province stands at the gate of a house outside the provincial capital, Kazan, on Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012. The reclusive sect that literally went underground to stop contact with the outside world kept 27 children in dark and unheated cells, many of them for more than a decade, prosecutors said Wednesday. The children have been freed and the parents charged with child abuse.Some of the children, aged between 1 and 17, have never seen daylight, health officials said. The sect's 83-year-old founder Faizrakhman Satarov, who declared himself a Muslim prophet in contradiction with the principles of Islam, has also been charged with negligence, Irina Petrova, deputy prosecutor in the provincial capital of Kazan, told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/ Nikolay Alexandrov)

A member of an underground sect in Russia's Volga River province of Tatarstan province stands at the gate of a house outside the provincial capital, Kazan, on Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012. The reclusive sect that literally went underground to stop contact with the outside world kept 27 children in dark and unheated cells, many of them for more than a decade, prosecutors said Wednesday. The children have been freed and the parents charged with child abuse.Some of the children, aged between 1 and 17, have never seen daylight, health officials said. The sect's 83-year-old founder Faizrakhman Satarov, who declared himself a Muslim prophet in contradiction with the principles of Islam, has also been charged with negligence, Irina Petrova, deputy prosecutor in the provincial capital of Kazan, told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/ Nikolay Alexandrov)

(AP) ? A reclusive sect that literally went underground to stop contact with the outside world kept 27 children in dark and unheated cells, many of them for more than a decade, prosecutors said Wednesday. The children have been freed and the parents charged with child abuse.

Some of the children, aged between 1 and 17, have never seen daylight, health officials said. The sect's 83-year-old founder Faizrakhman Satarov, who declared himself a Muslim prophet in contradiction with the principles of Islam, has also been charged with negligence, Irina Petrova, deputy prosecutor in the provincial capital of Kazan, told The Associated Press.

No members of the sect, who call themselves "muammin" after the Arabic term that means "believers," have been arrested, she said.

The children were discovered last week when police searched the sect grounds as part of a probe into the recent killing of a top Tatarstan Muslim cleric, an attack local officials blame on radical Islamist groups that have mushroomed in the oil-rich, Volga River province.

Satarov, a former top imam in the neighboring province of Bashkortostan, declared his house outside Kazan an independent Islamic state. He ordered some 70 followers to live in cells they dug under the three-story building topped by a small minaret with a tin crescent moon. Only a few sect members were allowed to leave the premises to work as traders at a local market, Russian media reported.

The children have been placed in local hospitals for observation and will temporarily live in an orphanage, pediatrician Tatyana Moroz said in televised remarks.

The cramped cells, without ventilation, heating or electricity, form eight levels under a decrepit three-story brick house on a 700-square-meter (7,530 sq. foot) plot of land. The house was built illegally and will be demolished, Tatarstan police told local media.

"They will come with bulldozers and guns, but they can demolish this house over our dead bodies!" sect member Gumer Ganiyev said on the Vesti television channel. The ailing Satarov appointed Ganiyev as his deputy "prophet," according to local media.

Satarov had followers in several other cities in Tatarstan and other Volga River provinces, local media reported.

In a 2008 interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily, Satarov said that he fell out with other clerics and authorities in the Communist era, when the KGB sent him to Muslim nations with stories about religious freedom in the officially atheist Soviet Union. Government-approved Orthodox Christian, Muslim and Jewish clerics routinely traveled abroad on Soviet publicity trips.

"That's how I became Satan's servant, a traitor," the white-bearded and turbaned man was quoted as saying. "When I understood that, I repented and started preaching."

Muslim leaders in Tatarstan said Satarov's views contradict their dogma.

"Islam postulates that there are no other prophets after Mohammad," Kazan-based theologian Rais Suleimanov told the Gazeta.ru online publication Tuesday. "The teachings of Sattarov, who declared himself a prophet, have been rejected by traditional Muslims."

The sect members stopped accepting new members and are "only dangerous to themselves and their children," Suleimanov was quoted as saying.

Police entered Satarov's house last Friday as part of an ongoing investigation into the killing of Valiulla Yakupov, Tatarstan's deputy chief mufti, who was gunned down in mid-July as he left his house in Kazan. Minutes later, chief mufti Ildus Faizov was wounded in the legs after an explosive device ripped through his car in central Kazan.

Both clerics were known as critics of radical Islamist groups that advocate a strict and puritan version of Islam known as Salafism.

The emergence of Salafist groups in Tatarstan and other Volga River provinces with a sizable Muslim population has been fueled by the influx of jihadists and clerics from Chechnya and other provinces of Russia's Caucasus region, where Islamic insurgency has been raging for years.

Last year, Doku Umarov, the leader of the embattled Chechen separatists, issued a religious decree calling on radical Islamists from the Caucasus to move to the densely-populated Volga River region that includes Tatarstan.

Prosecutors have named two suspects in the cleric's killing who remain at large and arrested five others in the case. Islamist youth groups have staged rallies in Kazan demanding the detainees' release.

More than half of Tatarstan's 4 million people are Sunni Muslims. Tatars converted to Islam more than a thousand years ago, and the province became an important center of Muslim learning and culture under Tatar-Mongol rulers who controlled Russia and parts of Eastern Europe.

Islamic radicals from the Caucasus have called for the establishment of a caliphate, an independent Islamic state under Shariah law that includes the Caucasus, Tatarstan and other parts of Russia that were once part of the Golden Horde ? a medieval Muslim state ruled by a Tatar-Mongol dynasty.

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'The Avengers 2' will be directed by Joss Whedon

'The Avengers' director Joss Whedon has signed on for the film's sequel.

By Rob Keyes / August 8, 2012

'The Avengers 2' will be directed by Joss Whedon, according to reports.

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In what?s easily classified as good?news for Disney shareholders, the parent company of Marvel has officially announced that Joss Whedon, the director and writer behind The Avengers?will be back to helm The Avengers 2. Whedon will also be writing the film, just as he did in rewriting Zak Penn?s script for The Avengers?along with editing parts of?Captain America: The First Avenger.

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What does this mean for the other Marvel Studios projects over the next few years?

When Whedon initially came aboard to help Marvel Studios? most ambitious film to date, there was?understandably?some skepticism due to his track record at the box office and with his latest show. Serenity, as awesome at it was, didn?t bank well, and Dollhouse?wasn?t quite up to snuff with his previous television endeavors. On the comics side however, Whedon?s resume is top notch and his work on Astonishing X-Men and Runaways helped him land the gig. More than that, his ability to handle ensemble casts and his knowledge of the Marvel universe made?The Avengers?and its group of characters work, creating chemistry that?s hard to come by.

With The Avengers, Whedon laid the groundwork for ?Phase Two? of the Marvel cinematic universe and there?s no better choice to direct The Avengers 2, a film quickly confirmed after its predecessor became the biggest box office opening of all time. He already has ideas about how to make The Avengers 2?more personal.

We know the events of The Avengers?directly lead into Thor: The Dark World?and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and the mid-credits scene featuring Thanos was a tease for Guardians of the Galaxy. So, after shooting the post-credits scene in Thor?and helping out with the first Captain America?before The Avengers, the question now becomes, is Whedon being confirmed now so he can lend a hand or oversee these Phase Two films that are paving the way for The Avengers 2?

While this shouldn?t come as a surprise despite Whedon?s admittance that he needs a break and was unsure of the sequel, what may be of surprise is that he?ll also be developing a live-action TV series for ABC, one that ties in with the cinematic universe. This news comes at a very convenient time after?Guillermo del Toro provided an update on the ABC Hulk series, stating that they?re just waiting on a certain writer?s (?a very, very concrete name?) schedule to clear up so they can revise the script.

Rob Keyes blogs at Screen Rant.

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DREAM Act a nightmare for legal immigrant | Conservative Byte

If Lauren Gray?s parents had been illegal immigrants, she wouldn?t be facing deportation.

Lauren Gray, a dancer who turns 21 on Wednesday, has lived in the U.S. since she was just 4, when her parents came here from England. But they came on work visas and, once she turns 21, Gray can?t piggyback on those permits. So, barring a last-minute miracle, Gray is about to leave for ?home,? to a country that?s foreign to her. While she is not being forcibly deported, she plans to ?self-deport? rather than remain here illegally.

?The U.S. is the country I was raised in,? Gray, who lives in Trenton, Mo., about 90 miles northeast of Kansas City, told FoxNews.com. ?I am unwanted in the country I call home.?

Ironically, under the DREAM Act-style guidelines now being followed by the Obama administration, an illegal immigrant in Gray?s position would be welcome to stay while following a path to citizenship. Earlier this year, the president instructed the Justice Department not to deport law-abiding illegal immigrants if they arrived as minors, graduated high school and have lived in the U.S. for at least five years before 2001, though the administration has denied the guidelines amount to amnesty. While the DREAM Act was designed to apply only to illegal immigrants, the Obama guidelines do cover legal immigrants ? provided their immigration status expired prior to June 15.

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How to create a simple retirement plan ? Part One

There was a period in my life when I couldn?t bear to think about retirement planning.?I didn?t know how to do it. I didn?t think I could afford it. I only knew the problem grew worse with every day I ignored it.

So I blanked it out. It was a big, self-inflating ball of worry but it was invisible. Like a personal climate change problem, I pretended everything was hunky-dory by shutting off the voices of doom in a soundproof part of my brain.

If only I knew how easy creating a workable retirement plan could be!

First things first: It?s vitally important to define your investment goals. Without knowing your destination, you can?t work out how to get there.

A large-scale, life-altering project like investing for retirement may seem too abstract, distant, and difficult to deal with. Yet it can be done quite quickly by stringing together a few logical steps and employing a?retirement calculator to crunch the numbers.

Creating your retirement plan

Before the calculators can whir, we need to sketch out our retirement vision and the key factors that will make it happen.

  • My vision ? To build an annual income that will sustain me and my nearest and dearest once we can no longer work.
  • Target ? The annual income I need to live on in retirement. Another way of approaching this is in terms of total pension pot.
  • Time horizon ? e.g. I want to retire no later than age 65.
  • Contribution level ? Most calculators ask for the percentage of income that will be fed into your pension funds, but ultimately this comes down to how much cash you can save.
  • Expected rate of return ? What growth rate might we get from the mix of assets we choose for our portfolio?

To make my retirement plan a little more tangible, I?ve taken to thinking of it as my very own financial farm:

Grow your own retirement.

  • My target income is the crop that I?ll be harvesting in the years to come.
  • My contribution level is the seed that I sow.
  • The time horizon is the length of the growing season.
  • The expected rate of return is the effect of the financial sun, rain, and soil upon my crop.
  • I can even throw on fertilizer to increase the expected rate of return by choosing a riskier asset allocation.

Over the rest of this Special Retirement Week On Monevator! I?ll look at how to turn the factors above into raw numbers that you can feed into a retirement calculator.

As we go, we?ll look at each issue in turn (and magically the four bullet points below will be updated with links, too):

  • Target: How much do I need to live on in retirement?
  • Time horizon: How long have I got until I retire?
  • Contributions: How much money must I save to achieve my goal?
  • Expected rate of return: Working out your asset allocation

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Creating a retirement plan is worth the effort

Your investment goals face no bigger threat than the prospect of you giving up part way through.

By investing some time in your plan, before you invest any money, you will make your goals more tangible. You get a sense of what mission accomplished will look like, and can then draw a deep breath and take on the challenge.

After a while, you will savour your progress, relish defeating your demons, and turn a mental block into an empowering positive in your life. (Honestly!)

Take it steady,

The Accumulator

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Nissan?s Ugly New London Super-Taxi Can?t Quite Beat the Old Black Cab

NissanLondonTaxiThe future of the London ?black cab? might be packed with technology, but it?s not exactly a looker. Nissan?s brand new, super efficient taxi, might look like a van, but it?s got the backing of cabbies and the Mayor, plus ? Continue reading ?

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Apple Knows About a Massive Hack Exploit?And Has Done Nothing [Hacking]